Bug in trace prevents installation of xorg-server

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Wed Aug 19 08:16:47 PDT 2009


On 2009-8-20 00:07, Berni McCoy wrote:
> I've searched the wiki for a related article, but I could not find one,
> so I'm submitting this to the mailing list.
> 
> I recently have been using macports to experiment with xorg-server.  On
> a clean system (10.5.7), I ran
> 
> sudo port install -v -t xorg-server
> 
> It would fail during aclocal, saying vorbis.m4 could not be found, but
> indeed the file was there.
> 
> I typicall run -v and -t together as I am interested in warnings and
> diagnostics I should be aware of.  After much resyncing and rebuilding
> of dependent pieces, I still could not install.
> 
> It was only after I accidently took off the -t switch that it installed
> and built correctly.  I had installed every package xorg depends on
> prior to this, so I am not certain if this is xorg specific or if it is
> indeed a trace issue.

Well, libvorbis certainly isn't in the dependency tree for xorg-server,
so trace mode is correctly blocking access to its files. This sort of
situation could indicate an undeclared dependency, but OTOH it doesn't
seem like anything here should need vorbis. Possibly aclocal just
behaves in a way that doesn't agree with trace mode, attempting to read
all the files in /opt/local/share/aclocal/.

I certainly wouldn't recommend trace mode for everyday use BTW, it's
really only useful as a debugging tool for port authors at this point.

- Josh


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